Re: [boost] Directory structure not quite right yet?

Subject: Re: [boost] Directory structure not quite right yet?
From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-01-06 11:14:28

On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Peter Dimov <lists_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Beman Dawes wrote:
>>
>> Or maybe there will be a new "packaged-boost" top level super-project. But
>> that's not clear yet.
>
>
> This is a bit too complex for my taste; we're supposed to be removing
> complexity here, not adding it. :-)

+1; I was just thinking out loud.

>
> The perfect scenario in my mind is that, to get a modular release, one
> checkouts the appropriate revision of the source tree and runs "package.bat"
> or "package.sh" at the root. (Everyone should be able to do that, not just a
> Boost release manager; people should be able to prepare a modular boost
> repository for their team or organization and hand their co-programmers a
> copy of bpm that installs from it.)

Right. Historically all the release scripts have been in
tools/release, and anyone could use them.

--Beman